I thought Lebron could take over games by himself when he beat the Pistons in the ECF, he even showed a little of it in Game 7 against the Celtics in the second round.

But this ECF was simply different, I wonder why.

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Pietrus impressed the hell out of me. They just had the bodies to wear him down, and Howard at the rim. Makes you wonder what would a real back-up SF for the Pistons would have done (obviously not this year!)

I though Sagar said that LeBron left the team to go be with his mommy. Ah ha ha.

It really is interesting to see how the match-ups play out. DET can't beat CLE who can't beat ORL who can't beat DET.

Can you believe that Howard is the same one who plays against the Pistons? Likewise, can you believe that Big Z is the same one who plays against DET?

The TNT farewell wrap-up of the playoffs featured a .5 second close-up of a wincing Rip Hamilton as the only Piston "highlight". I seriously feel as if the Pistons just won the title I'm so happy.

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It's so ironic.

The Master of panic aka SVG seems to really have a handle on motivating his players. Rashard Lewis and Dwight Howard both pratically recited love letters to him in their post games LOL

My excitement is kinda waning now and i'm back to being annoyed that the Pistons are not there (oh and i also feel a little bad b/c i made a 20$ bet w/ my 10-year old nephew that the Magic would win. He's a LBJ fan. And he's from Canada. It's not even his team! LOL. I'm trying to break the habit). but this is the absolute best match-up IMO if it wasn't going to be them. Finally, two teams i can stand!

The Pistons legacy fittingly ends with the Magic in the finals. The Pistons after all have kept the Magic out.

Cleveland was overrated pure and simple. Winning 50 or 60 games in a league of parity/salary cap does not mean that much. Le Bron is for real but not the rest of the team.

This Piston team would not have been the Magic in a series. To illustrate: Billips goes out against the Lakers with a whimper. He cannot do what he used to do. Ben was a shadow of himself. Sheed could not bring it. That is 3/5 of the championship team. It was great; but it is over.

The Pistons have no one who can shoot threes like the Magic. The Pistons have no young big who is both active and can score. You can't go far in the playoffs without these qualities.

The Pistons have major rebuilding to do but the Orlando win is the final validation of just how good they have been.

There is a nice German word for what a lot of us on the board are feeling tonight -- schadenfreude (pronounced shadenfroida). There is no English equivalent; it means delight in the misfortunes of others. I rarely experience schadenfreude, but I am tonight.

Gotta give credit to Orlando's offense. Cleveland has a smothering defense, but it didn't seem to affect Orlando at all with their strategy. SVG is a genius. Also, he had enough personal effectiveness to turn it around with Dwight after he temporarily lost confidence in his coach.

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whoa whoa lets not get carried away now! SVG did a darn good job but I wouldn't call him a genius just yet; every match up with the exception of LBJ favored him! 6'3 Delonte West guarding 6'10 Rashard Lewis!, Mike Brown looked clueless the entire series why was Lebron defending Rafer? Does that make any sense from a coaching stand point; Mo williams can't defend Courtney Lee or Pietrus!

This Piston team would not have been the Magic in a series. To illustrate: Billips goes out against the Lakers with a whimper. He cannot do what he used to do. Ben was a shadow of himself. Sheed could not bring it. That is 3/5 of the championship team. It was great; but it is over.

Well, it's about time for me to go watch the game. I absolutely love tivo. How did I ever live without it? Now I can go down and watch the game from the beginning, and I can fast forward thru all those dumb commercials. It's really weird now when I watch tv at someone elses house and we have to sit there through all the commercials. The game or show takes forever. Tivo is right up there with the internet in my opinion. I can watch an entire NBA game in a little over an hour.

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.....and in a couple of days, Buck will tell us of his discovery of this amazing electronical wonder called the MICROWAVE OVEN! IT ACTUALLY HEATS YOUR FOOD IN 30 SECONDS!